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A History Of Stockton From Its Organization Up To The Present Time
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Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California by :
Download or read book An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Tammany Society from Its Organization to the Present Time by : Euphemia Vale Blake
Download or read book History of the Tammany Society from Its Organization to the Present Time written by Euphemia Vale Blake and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sale Catalogues by : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis With My Own Eyes by : Brent C. Dickerson
Download or read book With My Own Eyes written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five lively firsthand accounts of real life in the exciting pre-Yankee era of Californias rich history are offered in this bookfour of them world premiere publications, and all of them new and complete translations. This was an era not only of political intrigues and sectional clashes but also of upheaval as new ideas and attitudes came to a conservative Californian society. Piracy, kidnapping, lust, Indian uprisings, and scenes of battle all vie for the readers attention with fascinating passages about everyday life in the missions and presidios, governmental offices, and barracks. Governors are ejected, invaders fought, revolts arise, and plots hatched. While largely centered in Southern California, these accounts also bring us north to the Bay area and south to Baja California and farther. The reader of these memoirs will enjoy an intimate experience of life as it really wasa personal view not to be found in standard textbooks. As before with the authors previous foray into California history, Narciso Botellos Annals 18331847, the original manuscripts are rendered into a spirited English translation, capturing the nuances and vigor of these adventures in a land so familiar yet so exotic.
Book Synopsis Sale by : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Download or read book Sale written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fortune's Frenzy written by Eilene Lyon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to his financial woes. Joining a company of younger men, Jenkins and the other prospective miners sign fraudulent promissory notes to borrow from a ruthless businessman, Allen Makepeace, to reach the gold mines. They sail the risky route via Panama to the mines in 1851. But gold is not so easy to find by then. Making enough to survive and get home will be difficult; repaying Makepeace could be impossible. As Henry Jenkins becomes mired in mining, his wife, Abby, struggles to meet the needs of her large family amidst crop failures, waves of deadly disease, and harassment by Henry’s creditors. When Henry’s sons-in-law follow in his wake, they find themselves on a notorious death ship, stranded in the vast Pacific. Will any of these frantic men make it home to their distressed families? Fortune’s Frenzy reveals the plight of miners who borrowed at extortionate rates to get to California, and explores the dangerous and deadly sea routes to the west coast that killed roughly 10 percent of those who risked the journey. Alternating between the miners’ trials and terrors, and the challenges for the wives, children, and mothers left behind, Fortune’s Frenzy delves into the country’s pressing social, economic, and nationalist issues in the pre-Civil War decades. The theme is age-old, and still relevant: desperate people falling for get-rich-quick schemes. They fail to consider the sacrifices they will have to make and the dismal odds of their success.
Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Treasure and Empire in the Civil War by : Neil P. Chatelain
Download or read book Treasure and Empire in the Civil War written by Neil P. Chatelain and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Book Synopsis A History of the New California, Its Resources and People by : Leigh Hadley Irvine
Download or read book A History of the New California, Its Resources and People written by Leigh Hadley Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies of prominent and influential people in California in the late 19th and early 20th century. With many portraits.
Book Synopsis Universities and Their Sons by : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Download or read book Universities and Their Sons written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Book Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Retribution; Or, The Vale of Shadows by : Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Download or read book Retribution; Or, The Vale of Shadows written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California, a Slave State by : Jean Pfaelzer
Download or read book California, a Slave State written by Jean Pfaelzer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking “A searing survey of ‘250 years of human bondage’ in what is now the state of California. . . . Readers will be outraged.”—Publishers Weekly California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California’s carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers. By looking west to California, Jean Pfaelzer upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought, fled, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs but who instead are imprisoned in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows, or sold as nannies and sex workers. Slavery shreds California’s utopian brand, rewrites our understanding of the West, and redefines America’s uneasy paths to freedom.
Book Synopsis Past and Present by : Thomas Carlyle
Download or read book Past and Present written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the National Constituent Assembly by : John Frazer Corkran (d. 1884)
Download or read book History of the National Constituent Assembly written by John Frazer Corkran (d. 1884) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the National Constituent Assembly, from May, 1848 by : John Frazer Corkran
Download or read book History of the National Constituent Assembly, from May, 1848 written by John Frazer Corkran and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Illustrated by : Lewis Publishing
Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Illustrated written by Lewis Publishing and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1968 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: